Horrible histories of dates with no destiny

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The general response to the sensational tale of Sarah Kemp and George Bentley,
who signed up to a website looking for love only to discover in the process
of being set up on a date that they were long-lost siblings, seems to have
been: yuck. And this was my initial reaction too. But having dwelt upon the
many blind dates I have endured over the years, as part of my family’s
desperate efforts to get me married off, I’ve started wondering whether it
was so bad.

There was the business executive who declared in the pub she’d asked to meet